The labor shortage has hit Europe more severely since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. To fill this gap, Morocco will be one of Germany’s target countries in a campaign to encourage skilled workers to immigrate there, as part of an effort to fill the labor shortage.
The German economy lacks skilled labor, hundreds of thousands of jobs are vacant. Since March 2020, the law on the immigration of skilled workers has therefore widened the possibilities for employees from non-European countries to come to Germany. The message is clear: skilled workers are welcome to come and stay in Germany.
Germany had expressed its intention to set up counseling centers to attract skilled workers, to be established in nine countries outside the European Union, targeting Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria , Iraq, Pakistan and Indonesia.
Germany will devote 150 million euros to the creation of counseling centers for would-be immigrants and will launch a campaign in these nine countries with the aim of introducing Europe’s leading economic power.
Last February, the German Labor Minister, Hubertus Heil, together with the Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Svenia Schultz, took the initiative to redirect an advice center on immigration, because it will be responsible for provide information to people interested in immigrating to Germany, and similar centers will be set up in the other eight target countries.
“Modern immigration legislation”: this is how German Labor Minister Hubertus Heil presented one of the flagship reforms of Olaf Scholz’s government on Wednesday. The bill, adopted by the Council of Ministers, significantly eases the conditions of access to the labor market for qualified workers from outside Europe. Concretely, it will no longer be necessary to present a work contract to come to Germany, as is the case today. In the same spirit, speaking the language of Goethe before immigrating will no longer be an obligation; taking German lessons once installed will suffice. The procedures for recognizing foreign diplomas will also be simplified.
The question of attracting skilled workers from outside Germany has been raised for months, and a bill has been drawn up which aims to facilitate the conditions of access to the labor market for skilled non-EU workers, which was approved by the Council of Ministers last week.
The Employment Research Institute think tank estimates that without increased immigration or policy changes, the market will lose 7 million workers by 2035, from 46 million currently, according to The Economist.